Brian wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Complete agreement. I want to go further and say that a password that
> > you can remember without needing to write it down is probably not a
> > good password.
>
> Security of an ssh login is aimed at allowing access to some but
Comer Duncan wrote:
> I have a situation in which I am running wheezy 7.7 and for various reasons
> now want to purge all packages which for some reason are still present from
> etch, lenny, and squeeze. What I would like to know is how can I purge all
> such packages using dpkg? I can not seem t
scott wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> > Actually, 62 possible characters (upper case, lower case and digits), 10
> > positions is 62^10 or 839,299,365,868,340,224 possible combinations.
> >
> > Adding in special characters obviously would increase that.
> >
> > But there is no way you'll hit a se
Hi Wayne,
Wayne Hartell wrote:
> Thanks. I'm sure to violate some conventions here in reply format or what
> have you. Just let me know if I do and I'll try to remedy in future.
I see you have already exchanged mail concerning one of those
things. :-) There are 2,000+ subscribers on this mailing
Bonno Bloksma wrote:
> I was thinking I could run something which Debian Install runs too
> but then later realized that probably depends on files like ssh keys
> not being present yet and only creating new keys when that is the
> case.
There isn't anything that runs later that does this in the
de
Wayne Hartell wrote:
> I'm a new Debian/Linux user and brand new to this mailing list.
Welcome.
> To that end I have been tinkering with various Linux distros and I have
> found a reproducible issue in Wheezy ...
Please report it as a bug.
https://www.debian.org/Bugs/
> that I wish to discu
Bonno Bloksma wrote:
> I want to setup a few test VMs on my VMware servers.
Fun!
> Can I simply clone a basic machine? A machine with no desktop, just
> an "empty" server.
Yes. I do that all of the time. Depending upon what VM system you
are using there may be a script to clone the VM and auto
The Wanderer wrote:
> To my eye, based on what you've reported, it does look as if the reason
> your system is running fsck on every boot is that something about a
> mount attempt is failing. However, aside from "probably to do with the
> swap partition", I have no clue what that something is - or
August Karlstrom wrote:
> I run Debian Wheezy with a simple window manager (Blackbox). If I remember
> correctly, in Ubuntu some applications like Synaptic and Update Manager ask
> for sudo password only when/if needed.
>
> How do I configure the system so I can launch for instance Update Manager
Peter Michaux wrote:
> I'm thinking particularly of a personal/company repository where
> packages cannot be tested as well as they are in Debian before they
> are declared "stable" and sent to production servers. It is more
> likely for a company that a undetected problem makes it to production
>
Patrick Bartek wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > You are asking on a Debian user list. Any answer other than yes here
> > would lead me to seriously question the responses. Meanwhile I would
> > expect that a Fedora list would respond for Fedora for example and the
>
Peter Michaux wrote:
> Suppose there a nice package has been in Debian stable for years. If a
> new version is added to Debian stable and problems are discovered
> after it is added, what happens to fix the problem?
If problems are found after it has been released then file a bug
report on it. In
Dalios wrote:
> a few days ago I had to install Java in a laptop in order for a web
> application to be able to function properly. I followed directions
> found in the internet (mostly the debian wiki and the Adobe
> download page).
For Java all you need to do is to install one of the Java package
Sven Hartge wrote:
> You don't need the manually invoke /bin/bash if you just add
> "#!/bin/bash" as the first line of your shell script, which Don already
> pointed out:
> >> 3) It may not be executable.
Yes. Make sure it is executable.
chmod a+x /home/user/bin/email-script
Bob
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Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > For people adding additional mdadm raid volumes later they need to
> > do some configuration for it.
>
> This is exactly my case. I'm installing a RAID-0 for gigantic
> transient files. I do not anticipate using RAI
Sam Varghese wrote:
> I am not subscribed to the list so I would appreciate being copied in.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> libpam-systemd : Depends: systemd (= 215-6) but 215-8 is installed
Package libpam-systemd version 215-8 is current in Testing.
What is the output of:
Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Bob Proulx a écrit :
> > Personally I tend to have more than four partitions. Therefore I will
> > almost always end up using extended partitions.
>
> Consider using GPT partition scheme instead.
In the future GPT partitions will probably become alm
Manikandan M wrote:
> I have written a small script to email (using ssmpt) some details, and
> scheduled it in crontab. The script is running as per time mentioned in the
> cron but ssmtp is not sending the mail. please find the details below.
A couple of details to provide background to understan
Joel Rees wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > the disk as physical volumes for lvm. For you I might suggest:
> >
> > /dev/sdb1 /boot {256M}
> > /dev/sdb4 extended {remainder}
>
> Why extended? I generally put my LVM partition straight in a DOS
>
Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> There's one remaining question I have, which is fortunately not urgent.
> It's not clear what I'm going to have to do to bring the RAID online after
> a reboot. It doesn't seem to be as simple as tweaking /etc/fstab, like it
> is on bare drives. I suppose I can do an assem
Cadman wrote:
> I need help determining whether Debian OS is the right OS for my needs.
You are asking on a Debian user list. Any answer other than yes here
would lead me to seriously question the responses. Meanwhile I would
expect that a Fedora list would respond for Fedora for example and the
Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I do want to insulate the one drive from any failures on the other three.
> That data is not at all temporary, but it is backed up regularly. I want
> to limit it's failure profile.
Using mdadm RAID? Or LVM raid? I have personally only used mdadm
raid and not lvm raid.
Frank Miles wrote:
> I recently added a new hard drive to my home system. I decided to use it
> to create an all-new bootable 'jessie' system. I created a partition
> table that I thought would be flexible:
>/dev/sdb1 / (root) {7G}
>/dev/sdb2 /swap {4GB}
>/dev/
pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> Suppose
> strace LooseCannon
> produces 100 k lines of output but the user is primarily
> interested to see the first 1 k lines.
> strace LooseCannon | head --lines=1000
> might work but waste time and resources. How can the
> process be stopped without losing
Sven Joachim wrote:
> Raphaël Halimi wrote:
> > On an amd64 Sid system, steam (i386 only) depends on xterm |
> > x-terminal-emulator. I already have mate-terminal installed, which
> > provides x-terminal-emulator, but both apt and aptitude don't care and
> > want to install xterm along with steam.
Matthijs wrote:
> In the end I've also replaced the kernel by the Jessie-version, so that
> possible issue is solved - but:
> would it perhaps be better if the wheezy-jessie upgrade process creates
> "/etc/udev/kernel-upgrade" by default to prevent upgrade issues? Or is
> stopping the upgrade for t
Simon Bell wrote:
> SMART Error Log Version: 1
> No Errors Logged
>
> SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
> Num Test_DescriptionStatus Remaining LifeTime(hours)
> LBA_of_first_error
> # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 14025 -
> # 2
Boruch Baum wrote:
> Please respond to me directly, as well as on list.
>
> Today, I performed an `apt-get -t testing upgrade', which suggested a
> package `tc-utils'.
>
> However, no package tc-utils seems to exist in the debian repositories.
>
> Normally, I would file a bug against the package
Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> Danny wrote:
> > You were right, SFTP, FileZilla and Proftp confused the hell out of me ...
> > lol
We have all been there at some point! :-)
> > ... I must add in my defense though that I was in a state of panic
> > after syslog warned me of an attack by someone during th
Danny wrote:
> I am trying to setup SFTP (ssh) with ProFTP.
It looks to me like you might be confusing ssh sftp with proftpd sftp.
I assume you are not using ftps.
http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_sftp.html
> My /etc/proftpd/conf.d/sftpd.conf looks like this:
>
>
> SFTPEngine on
> Por
Hello Simon,
Simon Bell wrote:
> My /var/lib/dpkg/status file became corrupt recently, I was getting
> this when trying to apt-update:
You asked this question before and I posted a reply to it then. Did
you miss seeing it? I think you must have because you have apparently
asked the same questio
Simon Bell wrote:
> My /var/lib/dpkg/status file became corrupt recently, I was getting
> this when trying to apt-update:
> ...
> I managed to correct the issue by pulling some stuff from
> /var/lib/dpkg/status-old...
Also don't forget about /var/backups. There is a daily copy stored
there too.
The Wanderer wrote:
> Yes, that makes sense in this case. I'm not in the habit of doing it in
> most cases, however, because I commonly-enough need to use find with
> commands of the form 'command option {} option +' rather than the form
> 'command option {} +'.
Yep. That would push you into usin
Ric Moore wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > On one hand I don't think it's such a big burden to use su/do or similar
> > for this type of operation, on the other hand it's slightly easier to
> > pick the wrong device and destroy your data.
>
> Andrei, the issue of IF the pen-drive was automounted
Brian wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > floppy group. The console user is also set up with the floppy group
> > too. Assuming one of libpam, consolekit, systemd-login0 and so forth.
> > Therefore the console user doesn't need to be root. They can write to
> > the
The Wanderer wrote:
> As usual when dealing with recursive action under *nix, the answer is
> find:
Yes! :-)
> find -P ...
> The '-P' option tells find to never follow any symlinks.
A small comment upon the technique. Just noting that -P is the
default. No need to specify it explicitly.
Peter Gerber wrote:
> I want to change permission of a directory, recursively. The directory is a
> subdirectory of a user's home directory.
Sure. Okay. People do that all of the time.
> Is there a way to do this in a secure and easy way with the user having full
> write access to the home di
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> Brian wrote:
> > Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
> > > I plug in a USB pen drive, and launch dd to copy an iso image.
> > >
> > > # dd bs=4M if=debian-live-7.6.0-amd64-rescue.iso of=/dev/sdi && sync
> >
> > Thee is no need to be root to copy the ISO.
>
> Of course there is no need
Chris Bannister wrote:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
> > When I restart ssh like so:
> >
> >sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart
Use 'service' instead.
sudo service ssh restart
> > I see very little output. Should it be more verbose?
No. It is a system daemon. Very little is logged to the screen.
> >
Brad Rogers wrote:
> Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:
> >Is there a way to force it to mount read-write ?
>
> I had similar issues with a USB hard drive. It turns out that I needed
> ntfs-3g installed. Maybe it's the same for you.
That would help if the task was to mount an ntfs usb storage device
a
Petter Adsen wrote:
> Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:
> > # dd bs=4M if=debian-live-7.6.0-amd64-rescue.iso of=/dev/sdi && sync
> > dd: opening `/dev/sdi': Read-only file system
> >
> > Is there a way to force it to mount read-write ?
>
> Try
>
> mount -o remount,rw /dev/sdi
That would actually be b
Don Armstrong wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > I am curious. How does knowing the names further in advance make some
> > things easier?
>
> 1) Tools can include support for releases which are +1 and +2.
>
> For example, debootstrap needs to know the names of the rele
German wrote:
> Yes, I got a black, unresponsive screen. I went to recovery mode
> already, so I have a shell root access. Are any x logs that can be
> examined? Thanks
Look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log for the X logs.
Bob
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James Allsopp wrote:
> Thanks Bob,
> Hit a snag, I thought the upgrade would update the kernel and it's left me
> with a mismatch. I can't now log into the machine, no ssh and no keyboard.
> I think I'm going to try and use a netinst disk to rescue the system,
> unless you've any other ideas?
Usin
James Allsopp wrote:
> I've not had access to my machine for a while, and I've just tried to do an
> upgrade from squeeze to wheezy using the instructions found here;
> http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-upgrade-debian-squeeze-to-wheezy
Why are you using those instructions instead of the official De
li...@onemanifest.net wrote:
> I’ve setup static adressing for both NICs for ipv4 and ipv6 like this:
I see you have good answers from others. Great. But I didn't see
these comments that I am going to make.
> # The primary LAN network interface
> allow-hotplug eth0
> iface eth0 inet stati
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> Stretch and Buster were only meant as example, please consider my
> nitpick to have been:
>
> The name of the next release is generally known, latest by the time
> of the freeze of the previous one.
Sure. :-)
> In this particular case the Release Team was sligh
The Wanderer wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Good! Then you saw that I did answer your question! :-)
> >
> > As I said... The reason that KDE 4.14.3 isn't in Jessie is because
> > when Jessie froze KDE 4.14.2 was the latest available. KDE 4.14.3
> > was
claude juif wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> I've read this doc
> http://ftp.dc.volia.com/pub/debian/preseed/partman-auto-recipe.txt where it
> says :
>
> is the maximal size for the partition, i.e. a limit
> size such that there is no sense to make this partition larger.
claude juif wrote:
> I'm stuck with partman expert_recipe for 3 days now and it's driving me
> crazy.
The partman part of the installer is one of the more obtuse parts.
> I've a 250GB hard drive and i try to use the following partition layout :
>
> primary partition
> 512M /boot
> 4096M swap
>
B. M. wrote:
> The Wanderer a écrit :
> > I understood him as asking why freeze testing with a version which
> > excludes the latest bug fixes, when a newer version which includes them
> > is available. This is not the same as asking why freeze testing with a
> > version which is not the newest ver
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > When Testing is released as Stable a new name will be chosen for the
> > next release and that new name will become Testing.
>
> Minor nitpick: the names are already known, the release after Jessie
> will be Stretch
B. M. wrote:
> Bob Proulx a écrit :
> > B. M. wrote:
> >> I'm using Debian since about a year now, so this is my first freeze :-)
> >
> > When you say "using Debian" that is not sufficient to really describe
> > what you are doing. I use D
Brian wrote:
> Ever since Wheezy automatic fsck has been disabled on new installs. For
> the vast majority of users this passed unnoticed and for at least two
> years most new users have never seen an enforced fsck at boot. During
> the same amount of time there has not been a single report of any
Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Bob Proulx a écrit :
> > Do you have any articles or blogs or postings you have written that
> > would summarize raid alternatives? I would enjoy reading whatever you
> > have written on the subject. Or if you recommended other references.
>
>
Bernhard Frühmesser wrote:
> First the service xdm is now started long before other services (like dhcp,
> clamd, dansguardian...) are started.
> Before the upgrade xdm was the last service that was started which was ok.
Sounds like you are now using the parallel boot whereas before it was
the ser
B. M. wrote:
> I'm using Debian since about a year now, so this is my first freeze :-)
When you say "using Debian" that is not sufficient to really describe
what you are doing. I use Debian Stable on production servers. I
also run Debian Unstable for testing and reporting bugs before the
next re
B. M. wrote:
> Short Summary:
> How can I find files which parent folders have the same name?
> ...
> Assuming that at least some of these files are in parent folders with
> the same name, do you know any tool which can help in finding them and
> moving them around?
The 'find' program is the stand
Hello Pascal,
Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Bob Proulx a écrit :
> > I favor RAID6's extra redundancy for more safety but I
> > still use RAID1 too.
>
> RAID 1 can provide as much or more redundancy than RAID 6.
> RAID 1 on 3 disks provides as much redundancy as RAID 6.
mourik jan heupink - merit wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > When I set up a system such as this I always test afterward that the
> > system can be booted from each disk individually. Don't boot past
> > grub. Just boot to grub to verify. If you boot past grub into a
&
Gary Dale wrote:
> Mart van de Wege wrote:
> > The problem is not that RAID5 does not provide resilience against a
> > single disk failure. The problem is that with modern disk capacities,
> > the chances of *another* disk failing while the array is rebuilding have
> > significantly risen.
> >
> >
Sergi Pons Freixes wrote:
> I just upgraded my VPS at Linode from Squeeze to Wheezy, everything looked
> find (only some issues with Dovecot), but after the reboot the system hangs
> at:
> ...
> So, or it is something related to saslauthd (the last message printed), or
> to the error seen before wi
Johann Spies wrote:
> I am trying to install Debian on a SuperMicro server on two ssd's
> configured in the bios as a RAID1 (I think it is called a fake-raid).
Like Miles recommended I also recommend you avoid BIOS RAID and use
Linux md raid with mdadm instead. I have used Supermicro servers for
Don Armstrong wrote:
> mad wrote:
> > I am using equivs to create simple packages with dependencies and a few
> > files.
> >
> > Now I removed one file from the equivs package and installed the
> > resulting deb file. The deb file does not contain the file but dpkg did
> > not remove the old file
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> I wonder... What exactly does "bind not responding" mean? any command
> that reproduces that would be handy.
>
> As this is happening in relation to suspend/resume, this would imply
> that network interfaces go down and up too. So perhaps bind is failing
> to detect the r
Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
> Is there a way to tell the system to create md7 at the same time as
> the others ?
>
> Where should I look ?
Is it listed in /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf file along with the rest? I
expect that it is missing from that file and that is why it isn't
being started.
The mdadm.conf
mad wrote:
> I found it. It was DHCP. The NTP init scripts checks if there is a file
> /var/lib/ntp/ntp.conf.dhcp in which the local router is configured as
> only ntp source.
Thank you for posting the resolution of the problem!
Bob
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Charlie wrote:
> In a different email, under the heading: Re: Installing an Alternative
> Init? Andrei posted this in part:
>
> [quote] A package not properly cleaning after itself on purge is
> generally considered a bug in Debian, severity depending on the impact,
> of course. [end quote]
>
> I
mad wrote:
> I use the default ntp configuration and other Debian installations
> "directly on the internet" use all four clock sources
> (0.debian.pool, 1.debian.pool...).
Should see some remapped names from the pool in the list then.
> Why is that? It seems to have something to do with IPv4
David Fuchs wrote:
> In short, the write speed plummets to around 160 MB/s, as opposed to 270
> MB/s on the naked partition; read speed is at 115 MB/s (slower than writing
> - no idea why), as opposed to 465 MB/s on the bare partition. (I've pasted
> the results below.)
I don't have an immediate a
Bret Busby wrote:
> Why a web page published to provide information to the public, needs
> to be "https", I have no idea.
To create more https traffic. If you only encrypt important things
then if it is encrypted them it must be important. An attacker now
knows that every piece of encrypted traf
Igor Sverkos wrote:
> As you can see, it is always the "Unpacking" step which is taking all the
> time.
dpkg has added fsync() calls after all file actions. This
significantly slows down file operations. Basically it disables the
file system buffer cache causing it to operate at disk drive spee
Chris Bannister wrote:
> John Aten wrote:
> > Err http://http.us.debian.org wheezy/non-free i386 Packages 404 Not
> ^
> Wow!! How long ago did you last update this laptop? IIRC, that url/mirror
> is no longer in use.
That alias is still alive and active and should be
David Christensen wrote:
> Ethan Rosenberg wrote:
> >Wrote it myself.
>
> Then you need to learn how to program the serial port using whatever
> language you picked.
Your program will basically need to sit in a loop reading data from
the point of sale serial port continuously. As data is read yo
Joel Rees wrote:
> Ric Moore wrote:
> > There ya go, install the good stuff directories to /opt// (on an
> > /opt partition) and after create links to them in your new /home//
> > directory. Just don't blow up /opt by re-formating it. :) Ric
>
> Hasn't /opt been traditionally used for installing (
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> T.J. Duchene wrote:
> > Why is it not possible to create a completely generic shell script -
> > basically ala SysV that can parse systemd config files for those use cases
> > where Systemd is undesirable?
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/02/msg00106.html
No
Don Armstrong wrote:
> Exactly how are Debian Developers preventing others from contributing?
For one by closing bugs without fixing them. As users we are always
admonished to file bugs. But whether those bugs will be acknowledge
and handled appropriately depends upon the project. My experience
Harry Putnam wrote:
> Raffaele Morelli writes:
> >> Is that what you are warning about?
> >
> > Nope, my warning was to use `a2enmod cgi` instead of `a2enmod cgi.load`
> > (which is wrong)
>
> OK, thanks. But once again you've failed to explain the nature of the
> wrongness.
>
> Can you define w
Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
> Yeah, I'm just the other side of ready to attempt testing. Soon. Very
> soon. Life keeps getting in the way. Truthfully not sure what I've
> got. The simple stuff, like determining version, eludes me often.. DID
> miraculously just have uname come to mind so ended up with
Podrigal, Aron wrote:
> ok, a fresh install of debian 7.6, here is my settings, I don't have
> libnss-myhostname
> installed yet
It shouldn't be *required*. It is one of those optional features that
some people want and others do not want. It is useful. But for
example I don't have it installed
Rob Owens wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Rob Owens wrote:
> > > Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> > > > Another GDM3 question:
> > > > How can I change the "system default" desktop for all users?
GDM3 makes me think that Paul is running GNOME.
Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> @bob
> if you mean speed and duplex mode then here is the detail
I wanted to see it say it was full duplex and whatever speed it had
negotiated.
> Speed: 1000Mb/s
> Duplex: Full
That says that it has linked and negotiated okay. In problem cases
where auto-negotiati
Rob Owens wrote:
> Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> > Another GDM3 question:
> > How can I change the "system default" desktop for all users?
>
> I *think* this might be set by running update-alternatives --config
> x-window-manager
I think x-session-manager instead. :-)
Bob
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Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> i am using wheezy 7.x and for some unknown reason my network speed drop
> down to 10MBPS.
> i can see anything in /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog related to the
> issue. when i restart the server it back to normal and shows above 50MBPS
> while transferring file.
Virgo Pärna wrote:
> I have been trying to search, but there do not appear to be any
> backports of newer php for Wheezy. Am I correct? There does not seem
> to be any version in official backports repositry.
For PHP I suggest setting up a chroot. The problem I usually have is
needing an olde
Diogene Laerce wrote:
> Brian wrote:
> >gzip -d < initrd.gz | cpio --extract --verbose --make-directories
> > --no-absolute-filenames
>
> Yes ! It did work. I still have to figure out how to fit this in the
> tuto.. But It works !
You didn't say what you were trying to do. But if you are si
Brian wrote:
> Richard Owlett wrote:
> > It would more resemble "Who pulls which string when?"
> > In one iteration of my experiments I had been burned by not adding
> > "exec openbox" as last line of xinitrc.
The man page for xinit says:
An important point is that programs which are run b
Hi Paul,
Paul E Condon wrote:
> I have been cleaning up old email files and in the process created a
> mess I have several mail directories containing emails from different
> times and collected under slightly different operating condition. I
> want to merge them into a single directory with the e
The Wanderer wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > If you don't need CDPATH then try unsetting it.
>
> Is CDPATH used at all by pushd / popd? I don't see any indication of
> that in bash(1), but since cd itself isn't involved here AFAICT,
> bringing up CDPATH wouldn&#
Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> Unfortunately the pushd/popd generate a lot of (mostly) unwanted output,
> with no apparent way of suppressing it.
Do you have CDPATH set? If CDPATH is set then there is ambiguity over
where the cd actually went since it may be one of the CDPATH
components. If so the s
Tom H wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > I believe the point was that it should be "make before break". They
> > should have allowed people to use systemd without preventing people
> > from not using it. They didn't make a new system without breaking the
> &
AW wrote:
> "B. M." wrote:
> > optimal partitioning scheme which should last for the
> > next 10 years :-)
>
> I've found that using lvm is a great idea. Resizing volumes is incredibly
> easy. You can even easily resize a volume to occupy a portion of a new HDD.
> So, my recommendation for new
Mike McClain wrote:
> Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> > Please describe your network topology. Where's the Win2k box ?
>
> __
> | Debian| LAN| Windows 2000 |
> Inet|Linux|
Steve Litt wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > Steve Litt wrote:
> > > 2) Write it to the screen. Relatively little happens before the
> > >filesystem comes up, anyway.
> >
> > It's "only" about 750 lines on my laptop...
>
> How'd you count the lines? Did you use a laptop as a serial console o
Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> Joel Rees wrote:
> > This is precisely why systemd should have been brought up to speed in
> > a separate, parallel, volunteer-only distro.
> >
> > (If you don't understand what I mean by a separate, parallel,
> > volunteer-only distribution, think of kfreebsd, but a little
Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> Fourth, the same data in a SQL file takes up more space than in a text file.
>
> Fifth, log files can easily be rotated in a text file; it is much harder
> with a SQL database.
Also text files compress well by compressing a large block of text all
at once. It is efficient
Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Doug wrote:
> >Steve Litt wrote:
> > > Screw that! I'm buying an old Kaypro 2x on Ebay, and using CPM for the
> > > rest of my life!
> > > :-)
> >
> >Good luck finding floppies!
>
> Turns out that is a big problem in maintaining the first generation of
> electronic voting m
Gary Dale wrote:
> Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> >My Debian Sid box won't restart after today's full-upgrade. At booting, I
> >read
Sid is the unstable child...
> To get back into your system, you can try booting from a Linux CD (system
> rescue CD, for example) and trying to debug from there. For ex
Chris Bannister wrote:
> Matthew Brown wrote:
> > You are the man! Thanks.
> >
> > How'd I let those # get in the way? LOL!
>
> They should be in front of the deb-src lines. Honestly, I don't think
> you'll need those entries.
Unless "apt-get source packagename" is tried. In which case the
de
Alef Farah wrote:
> However, no APs are found at my place ...
Is there a hardware rf kill switch? My T60 has a slide switch in the
lower left.
There is also an "rfkill" package in Debian. It might help. Don't know.
Try this. Does it show any access points?
# iwlist wlan0 scan
Are you awa
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